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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Publisher description: Y Combinator Garry Tan has, in the past, jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, set to publish on Tuesday, Tan put a price tag on his passion.
TechCrunch | Nov 3, 2026 | Julie Bort
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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has, in the past, jokingly admitted that he’s suffered from “cyber psychosis” and sometimes barely sleeps because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. He uses agents for countless work projects and coding tasks and has freely shared his set of 23 Claude Code skills, called gstack, on Github — an effort to help teach others what agents can do, he said.
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